Lila West is a character in Season Two of the Showtime series Dexter.
She was a Sponsor for a Narcotics Anonymous Group, who claimed to have overcome her own vice: meth addiction. She worked as a sculptor, often stealing items to use in her abstract (often disturbing) projects.
Description[]
Lila is slender with black hair and pale skin.
Personality[]
Initially, Lila presents as a fun-loving, empathetic person. In fact, she is controlling, eccentric, obsessive, and manipulative, along with having a penchant for setting fires. She frequents support groups to observe the emotions that she is incapable of feeling.
She recognizes Dexter's "mask" and is intrigued by his underlying darkness. However, she thinks that Dexter is a heroin addict and does not learn the truth about him until much later. By then, she is obsessed with Dexter, believing him to be her soulmate.
A romance is sparked between Lila and Dexter, but it ends when she violently responds to betrayal and is not above exploiting others for her needs. Lila's attention-seeking behavior begins to present a danger to Dexter being uncovered as a serial killer. Her diabolical thinking, and unstable, manipulative nature eventually wards off Dexter
History[]
Lila is from England, possibly London. This is clear from her accent, the threat of deportation from Debra, and her mentioning in "That Night, a Forest Grew" that "Everybody walks in London... of course, they're usually walking to the pub!" Also, the last episode of Season Two is called "The British Invasion".
She first meets Dexter Morgan when he joins a NA group to appease his girlfriend Rita Bennett, who is convinced that Dexter is a heroin addict (which he is not). The meetings and Lila's advice drive Dexter to delve deeper into trying to understand and overcome his dark side. He ends up forsaking for a time a number of things in his life (including Rita).
Meth Addiction[]
While in Naples, FL, Lila tells Dexter the reason why she started to attend Narcotics Anonymous. She was hooked on meth for years, binging and crashing, but finally had it under control. Then she met Marco, a boyfriend who became her dealer. By the time he left her, she was strung out, feeling only rage and that nothing mattered. One night, Lila was so "fucked up," she went to Marco's house and burned it to the ground. Lila claims that she didn’t know Marco was passed out inside. That same night, she went to her first NA meeting. Dexter asks Lila if Marco deserved it. When she answers, "Yes," Dexter tells her that she didn't do anything wrong.
Pyromania[]
Lila is an arsonist who is responsible for at least four fires:
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